Zen Coding speeds up your workaday typing

If you find yourself typing a lot of angle brackets in a text editor as you manually create html, then Zen Coding is a big help. All the details are here.
I have the plugin working on eclipse now and it really speeds things up.
Type div#content and hit tab and the text is replaced with <div id="content"></div>
Obviously a trivial example, but there are many more speedups made possible with this.
There is a handy cheat sheet (well 7 sheets) of hints here.

Looking forward to getting proficient at this so that I can speed up my normal daily editing.

There are plugins for a load of editors besides eclipse. A note for eclipse users: the stated shortcut of ctrl+E does not work out of the box. This is because tab is in its place (handier it is too). I discovered this even after unbinding switch editor (which is also ctrl+E).

Zen coding is just one of the handy hints I got from watching this video from Paul Irish.
http://paulirish.com/2012/talk-tooling-the-webapp-development-stack/
He never disappoints.
Happy coding.

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